The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

Made: 3rd July 2009

Coming into force: 7th July 2009

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Citation, commencement and extent

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Amendment of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007

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Amendment of regulation 2 (interpretation: general)

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Amendment of regulation 8 (interpretation: regulated facility)

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Amendment of regulation 12 (requirement for an environmental permit)

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Amendment of regulation 17 (single site permits etc.)

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Amendment of regulation 24 (notification of the surrender of an environmental permit)

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Amendment of regulation 31 (appeals to an appropriate authority)

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Amendment of regulation 32 (discharge of functions)

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Amendment of regulation 33 (direction to a regulator: discharge of functions by a different regulator)

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Amendment of regulation 35 (provision in relation to types of regulated facility)

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Amendment of regulation 38 (offences)

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Amendment of regulation 42 (enforcement by the High Court)

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Amendment of regulation 46 (duty of the regulator to maintain a public register)

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Amendment of regulation 63 (directions to the Agency: installations outside the United Kingdom)

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Amendment of regulation 71 (transitional provision: conversion of PPC permits resulting from applications in relation to existing Part A installations and mobile plant)

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Amendment of regulation 72 (savings)

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Amendment of Schedule 1 (activities)

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Amendment of Schedule 3 (descriptions: exempt waste operations and other operations to which section 33(1)(a) of the 1990 Act does not apply)

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Amendment of Schedule 5 (environmental permits)

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Amendment of Schedule 6 (appeals to the appropriate authority)

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Amendment of Schedule 7 (provision in relation to Part A installations and Part A mobile plant)

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Amendment of Schedule 8 (provision in relation to Part B installations and Part B mobile plant)

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Amendment of Schedule 10 (provision in relation to landfill)

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Insertion of new Schedule 18B (provision in relation to mining waste operations)

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Amendment of Schedule 19 (public registers)

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Amendment of Schedule 20 (further provision relating to waste)

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Consequential amendments

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SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 2 — Consequential amendments

Environmental Protection Act 1990

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Water Resources Act 1991

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Clean Air Act 1993

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Signed

Jane Davidson — Minister for Environment, Sustainability and Housing — 2009-07-03

Dan Norris — Parliamentary Under Secretary — 2009-07-02

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1999 c. 24. Functions of the Secretary of State under section 2 (except in relation to offshore oil and gas exploration and exploitation), so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 3 of S.I. 2005/1958. Those functions were then transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006, c. 32.

[^f00002]: The reference in section 2(8) to approval by each House of Parliament has effect in relation to exercise of functions by the Welsh Ministers as if it were a reference to approval by the National Assembly for Wales by virtue of paragraph 33 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006, c. 32.

[^f00003]: S.I. 2007/3538 as amended by S.I. 2009/890.

[^f00004]: OJ No L 24, 29.1.2008, p8.

[^f00005]: OJ No L 102, 11.4.2006, p15.

[^f00006]: S.I. 2002/1559.

[^f00007]: Schedule 18A was inserted by paragraph 2(6) of Schedule 8 to the Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/890).

[^f00008]: 1990 c. 8. Section 1 was amended by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, section 18(3) and (4), c.19.

[^f00009]: 1990 c. 8. Sections 191 and 192 were amended by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991, section 10(1), c.34.

[^f00010]: 1990 c. 43.

[^f00011]: Section 29(13) was inserted by S.I. 2007/3538.

[^f00012]: 2005 c. 16.

[^f00013]: Section 33A(1) was substituted by S.I. 2007/3538.

[^f00014]: 1991, c. 57. Section 85 was amended by S.I. 2007/3538.

[^f00015]: 1993, c. 11. Section 41A was inserted by S.I. 2000/1973 and amended by S.I. 2007/3538.

Editorial notes